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I’ve had it with WordPress!

Update:

Luckily, I got WordPress to restore the Classic option, so I can continue to publish here. However, that doesn’t alter my opinion about how upset I am about what’s happened to the WordPress Platform that I’ve been using for over 20 years!

I can no longer use WordPress as the Classic editor has been removed and in order to use this function, I now have to ‘upgrade’ my subscription in order to install the Classic Plugin.

WordPress wages war on its users by inexorable attrition of functions that used to be free.

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5 responses to “I’ve had it with WordPress!”

  1. zrpradyer Avatar
    zrpradyer

    So sorry!

    Trust you can find a better alternative.

    Zara. xxx

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    1. barovsky Avatar
      barovsky

      Unfortunately not. I’ve published getting on for 32,000 pages here, moving them is not only an extremely complex process but move them where? Two decades ago, I had a self-hosted WordPress site that I built myself, an ideal setup except the hosting company decided that it was much trouble, so I moved it all to a WordPress server and no longer have much control over the site itself. I’m at the mercy of the ‘Happiness Engineers’ and what WordPress does to its software.

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  2. Lara/Trace Avatar
    Lara/Trace

    I don’t know where else we can go – blogger is already policing me, and deleting stuff.

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    1. barovsky Avatar
      barovsky

      Yes, I just had an exchange with WordPress’s’Happiness Engineer’ about the arbitrary nature of the decisions it makes. As a result they have reinstated my ability to use the Classic Interface when creating new posts. The Block Editor is a total dog, I refuse to use it.

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        Lara/Trace

        I stopped posting on WP a long time ago but left the blog up just in case. I will try the happiness engineer!

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